2011 Big Stick’s Logjam! Surfing Contest

WHAT: Another year has passed and Big Stick Surfing Association will once again host the Logjam! contest, its 11th edition. Drawing hundreds of spectators in the course of the weekend, it is a rare opportunity to see some elegant, old-school surfing, a skillful style born of the era’s big, heavy boards. A new “wooden board” division as been added to this year’s event and history in the making can be witnessed: alaias, olos, hot curls & hollows surfed in a contest.

The last two years the contest saw perfection with head-high south swells hitting with a light offshore wind – perfect conditions for an “old-board-no-cord” contest and a day on the beach, enjoying the sunshine and some barbecue cooked up by local community group the Pleasure Point Night Fighters.

From it’s inception in 2001 to present, our Logjam! has raised and donated over $40,000 to worthy causes such as Ride A Wave and the Junior Guards, as well as providing scholarships to high grade point, surfer/scholars from our local high schools who are going on to college. We’re especially proud to have helped these seniors with $22,250, and to have donated around $8,000 to help needy and disabled kids have a day at the beach in Santa Cruz thanks to Ride A Wave. We are also proud to support local organizations protecting our coast. The Santa Cruz Surfrider Foundation and Surfer’s Environmental Alliance received around $5,000 over the years and, to preserve local surfing history, we’ve donated $2,500 to the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum. Junior Guards groups have received around $2,500 in ‘scholarships’ for kids who couldn’t afford to participate.

This year’s Logjam! is also fondly dedicated to the Memory of Mark Nelson, who we unexpectedly lost late last year.

Please post the Old Skool Surfboards site on your related links site. We are doing an in-water demonstration at the Bigstick Logjam 2011 named “The Golden Age of Surfing” on Sunday April 17, 2011. Also working with Denny Dederick creating the trophy’s for the event . Thanks Trace